Hmm.. I previewed and still messed up. I meant 128MB. The suggestions to get a Rio 500 on ebay is a good one, it takes a regular battery (which really does work like 14 hours for me), etc., and mine has been working wonderfully with constant use- more like abuse- for 2 years. In the interest of disclosure, I used to upload to it with SoundJam on my Mac w/ OS9, and now iTunes with OSX.
As a long-distance runner myself, I think my Rio 500 is by far the best gadget I've ever owned. I can put 2 hours of music on mine (compressed at 192), and it weighs nothing- unlike a walkman, it is light enough to stay on w/ the included belt clip. And the wetsuit-material case also provides a little bounce protection if you trip on a tree stump.)
Absolutely, do not consider an MP3 player that is not solid state. It will skip while you're in motion just like your walkman does at the beginning and end of every tape. Do not consider an MP3 player that cannot hold less than 128MG, and more is better, since you need music for 8 miles. (I have 64 internal, 64 external.) Of course, if you'd prefer not to notice your MP3 player while running, the Rio 600 is perfect, it's small, and the belt clip means the headphone cord is not getting tangled up like some connected to your arm might be. One note: I did not like the Rio-included headphones, just use your favorite from your existing musical gadget.
Exactly. Those of you who rely on your cell phones entirely, great, but I live in a stucco condo. No cell phone service in my house. I am not going outside in the rain or cold or blazing heat just to talk on the telephone.
...like this article makes it sound. I spent 4 months in Ghana in the spring of 1998.
I sent email to my friends and family from the university libraries, and get email from the friends that I made there all the time.
Ghana's electricity problems stem from the U.S. bastard baby, the World Bank. The World Bank thought it would be brilliant to build dams in Ghana for hydropower, creating Akosombo Dam and Lake Volta, which is a fantastic breeding pool for mosquitos carrying malaria and yellow fever. Ghana's northern half is in the Sahara Desert!! The only thing for sure in Ghana is sunshine, so if it was you or me there, we would have been in there installing solar power everywhere. The libraries had older DOS computers for the most part, but those old workhorses are better adept at handling the unexpected power outages (and planned ones, when the dam runs out of water) than my new G4 would be. The Geekcorps has been in Ghana for a while, so clearly they see potential.
Go there and find out for yourself what an amazing place Ghana is, delicious food, unbelievably friendly people. I was there during the biggest drought/electricity crisis in several years, and they just had rotating blackouts no different than my native CA did a year ago. Water had to be trucked in to be spread around, but you wouldn't believe how I could make a bucket of water last when I learned from my friends there. Ghanaians aren't all living in horrendous poverty. They do know how to make do with less than Americans, and really, it's not a reflection of them but of our excess. And they've got more culture than in all our bio-tech labs combined.
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I cancelled my Earthlink account after business hours in a whopping 4 minutes when I got my DSL, although I was sad to go because SBC/PacBell will never give me the same customer service as Earthlink. They even noticed I'd just been billed the day before for the following month and had it refunded.
As a consumer, business-person, whatever your reasons for wanting internet access, consider requests to verify your identity from your ISP before cancelling or making significant changes to your account a good thing- like when the sales clerk asks for ID when you wrote "SEE ID" on the strip on your credit card. People do actually try to cancel other people's internet service for revenge or a host of other reasons. Dial-up may be easy to restore, but if you went through the hell of DSL installation one time- well, when your circuit goes back into the phone company's "pool," you're screwed into it all over again.
I'm sure the customer records Mindspring turned over to Earthlink completely suck. Not to make excuses for the guy who might have been gruff with JonKatz, but in general, I suspect they are trying to make the best of a suspect collection of customer data from Mindspring- and imagine your annoyance if they cancelled your account instead of JonKatz's because the information they have on old Mindspring accounts is in mixed up.
Ha! I'm back in the Bay Area, but I remember that one. My fish tank was on a dresser I found out that night was pretty rickety, the fish tank nearly exploded. It was a smaller magnitude earthquake, especially by the time it hit LA, but it felt bigger than last night.
What is the magistrate judge going to do with this data that could possibly explain why he went along with this idea? What do they plan to compare it to, my AT&T box that stays on sometimes when I'm not watching? What about when I vacuum or do the dishes or go to the bathroom during the commercials?? How about when I record something on my old VCR and fast-forward through the commercials when I watch it later? The studios don't have accurate information on us regular cable watchers, so I don't see how this could end up fair in court. We're all about to be taken for a ride....
I don't have money for a $2500 Replay, but I'm furious about this anyway. Let commercials compete for my attention on their own merits- I'll watch that iMac commercial, or the Yahoo one with the dolphin any day, because they entertained.
.... if legislation to let the ILECs and cable-providers monopolize high-speed internet access continues to gain so much "support" from the ILECs, groups like SVMG etc., and the rest of us aren't heard nearly as loudly.
Just think- wireless phone service could soon be superior to our broadband choices- at least you'd have your choice of providers to find the plan for you (by-the-minute or flat rate, a combination of the two...)
Now consider what you "need" to download (anti-virus updates, patches) and what you might want to download (shareware, Groksterness). Do advertisers (see previous/. stories) want to start paying for our internet service to download their pop-ups and other nonsense that interfere with this "quota"?
I've been wondering the same thing. What about those of us that work 8.5 hours a day on our computers, you know, on a computer owned by the company for a boss that wants to see results, and with an org that wants to pay for the least bandwidth possible. Have any of these advertisers considered that for more than 1/2 our time on the internet, it's not for s#*ts and giggles and buying useless stuff? I do an awful lot of internet research- if it wasn't for programs like AdAware & Pop-up Stopper, I swear, I'd never get any work done. Some marketing tool, just pissing me off.
We shop with our conscience, buying earth-friendly products, do the same here- skip the site with the ads and the products themselves if they cross the line. It took us several demands to get recycleable products, etc., but we did. We've e-petitioned the government, the EPA and so on, and so on- who wants to start a new petition site to take down the mail servers of these annoyances?
What about reviews on sites such as Epinions, Amazon, bizrate and the now-defunct Gomez? Even eBay? Those comments are more "public" than some listserv for underwater plant hobbyists, as far as their potential to hurt a business' sales. If this guy effectively "wins," does it mean we could get sued because we said we didn't like a book we read? Will companies that get a bad rap on Epinions because of their creepy business practices just become a shell to collect settlements from the people who get swindled by them?
I for one would have been cautious about this merchant after hearing about their poor customer service. But Novak's responding by suing instead of cleaning up the attitude that brought on complaints in the first place, well, in the real free-market economy, he'd be out of business. Kinda like Bill Jones, who would never get my vote for anything ever again after spamming people. Take the high road, guys...
... I see... MicroSatan getting an inferiority
complex over this... creating their own
player that freezes after your fourth additional
smartmedia card, demanding you call tech support
because you made too many changes.
Yay for us users... our rights are being whittled
away in so many places, bring on more options!!
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Hmm.. I previewed and still messed up. I meant 128MB. The suggestions to get a Rio 500 on ebay is a good one, it takes a regular battery (which really does work like 14 hours for me), etc., and mine has been working wonderfully with constant use- more like abuse- for 2 years. In the interest of disclosure, I used to upload to it with SoundJam on my Mac w/ OS9, and now iTunes with OSX.
Absolutely, do not consider an MP3 player that is not solid state. It will skip while you're in motion just like your walkman does at the beginning and end of every tape. Do not consider an MP3 player that cannot hold less than 128MG, and more is better, since you need music for 8 miles. (I have 64 internal, 64 external.) Of course, if you'd prefer not to notice your MP3 player while running, the Rio 600 is perfect, it's small, and the belt clip means the headphone cord is not getting tangled up like some connected to your arm might be. One note: I did not like the Rio-included headphones, just use your favorite from your existing musical gadget.
Exactly. Those of you who rely on your cell phones entirely, great, but I live in a stucco condo. No cell phone service in my house. I am not going outside in the rain or cold or blazing heat just to talk on the telephone.
Ghana's electricity problems stem from the U.S. bastard baby, the World Bank. The World Bank thought it would be brilliant to build dams in Ghana for hydropower, creating Akosombo Dam and Lake Volta, which is a fantastic breeding pool for mosquitos carrying malaria and yellow fever. Ghana's northern half is in the Sahara Desert!! The only thing for sure in Ghana is sunshine, so if it was you or me there, we would have been in there installing solar power everywhere. The libraries had older DOS computers for the most part, but those old workhorses are better adept at handling the unexpected power outages (and planned ones, when the dam runs out of water) than my new G4 would be. The Geekcorps has been in Ghana for a while, so clearly they see potential.
Go there and find out for yourself what an amazing place Ghana is, delicious food, unbelievably friendly people. I was there during the biggest drought/electricity crisis in several years, and they just had rotating blackouts no different than my native CA did a year ago. Water had to be trucked in to be spread around, but you wouldn't believe how I could make a bucket of water last when I learned from my friends there. Ghanaians aren't all living in horrendous poverty. They do know how to make do with less than Americans, and really, it's not a reflection of them but of our excess. And they've got more culture than in all our bio-tech labs combined.
I cancelled my Earthlink account after business hours in a whopping 4 minutes when I got my DSL, although I was sad to go because SBC/PacBell will never give me the same customer service as Earthlink. They even noticed I'd just been billed the day before for the following month and had it refunded.
As a consumer, business-person, whatever your reasons for wanting internet access, consider requests to verify your identity from your ISP before cancelling or making significant changes to your account a good thing- like when the sales clerk asks for ID when you wrote "SEE ID" on the strip on your credit card. People do actually try to cancel other people's internet service for revenge or a host of other reasons. Dial-up may be easy to restore, but if you went through the hell of DSL installation one time- well, when your circuit goes back into the phone company's "pool," you're screwed into it all over again.
I'm sure the customer records Mindspring turned over to Earthlink completely suck. Not to make excuses for the guy who might have been gruff with JonKatz, but in general, I suspect they are trying to make the best of a suspect collection of customer data from Mindspring- and imagine your annoyance if they cancelled your account instead of JonKatz's because the information they have on old Mindspring accounts is in mixed up.
Ha! I'm back in the Bay Area, but I remember that one. My fish tank was on a dresser I found out that night was pretty rickety, the fish tank nearly exploded. It was a smaller magnitude earthquake, especially by the time it hit LA, but it felt bigger than last night.
Next time don't let the hottie answer the phone.
What is the magistrate judge going to do with this data that could possibly explain why he went along with this idea? What do they plan to compare it to, my AT&T box that stays on sometimes when I'm not watching? What about when I vacuum or do the dishes or go to the bathroom during the commercials?? How about when I record something on my old VCR and fast-forward through the commercials when I watch it later? The studios don't have accurate information on us regular cable watchers, so I don't see how this could end up fair in court. We're all about to be taken for a ride....
I don't have money for a $2500 Replay, but I'm furious about this anyway. Let commercials compete for my attention on their own merits- I'll watch that iMac commercial, or the Yahoo one with the dolphin any day, because they entertained.
.... if legislation to let the ILECs and cable-providers monopolize high-speed internet access continues to gain so much "support" from the ILECs, groups like SVMG etc., and the rest of us aren't heard nearly as loudly. /. stories) want to start paying for our internet service to download their pop-ups and other nonsense that interfere with this "quota"?
Just think- wireless phone service could soon be superior to our broadband choices- at least you'd have your choice of providers to find the plan for you (by-the-minute or flat rate, a combination of the two...)
Now consider what you "need" to download (anti-virus updates, patches) and what you might want to download (shareware, Groksterness). Do advertisers (see previous
I've been wondering the same thing. What about those of us that work 8.5 hours a day on our computers, you know, on a computer owned by the company for a boss that wants to see results, and with an org that wants to pay for the least bandwidth possible. Have any of these advertisers considered that for more than 1/2 our time on the internet, it's not for s#*ts and giggles and buying useless stuff? I do an awful lot of internet research- if it wasn't for programs like AdAware & Pop-up Stopper, I swear, I'd never get any work done. Some marketing tool, just pissing me off.
We shop with our conscience, buying earth-friendly products, do the same here- skip the site with the ads and the products themselves if they cross the line. It took us several demands to get recycleable products, etc., but we did. We've e-petitioned the government, the EPA and so on, and so on- who wants to start a new petition site to take down the mail servers of these annoyances?
What about reviews on sites such as Epinions, Amazon, bizrate and the now-defunct Gomez? Even eBay? Those comments are more "public" than some listserv for underwater plant hobbyists, as far as their potential to hurt a business' sales. If this guy effectively "wins," does it mean we could get sued because we said we didn't like a book we read? Will companies that get a bad rap on Epinions because of their creepy business practices just become a shell to collect settlements from the people who get swindled by them?
I for one would have been cautious about this merchant after hearing about their poor customer service. But Novak's responding by suing instead of cleaning up the attitude that brought on complaints in the first place, well, in the real free-market economy, he'd be out of business. Kinda like Bill Jones, who would never get my vote for anything ever again after spamming people. Take the high road, guys...
... I see... MicroSatan getting an inferiority complex over this... creating their own player that freezes after your fourth additional smartmedia card, demanding you call tech support because you made too many changes. Yay for us users... our rights are being whittled away in so many places, bring on more options!!